Field guide No. 544
Coffee break canopy
Still warm, very humid.
A paper cup in a cardboard sleeve sits by the office coffee machine, and inside it is a whole misty rainforest, river valley and mountains included. Ten minutes' break, about a million years of growth.
Field noteA whole rainforest, valley and peaks, cannot fit in one paper cup. This one fits, still steaming.
- Specimen
- No. 544
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An office coffee station.
- Nearest existing relative
- A paper cup.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Nest of the stretched branchNest cup drops into a dark funnel far deeper than the fork can hold.
A spoonful of seaA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
Autumn under glassA forest, waterfall and all, in an acorn, in autumn, in the snow. Too much, and too late in the year.
The ballroom below OctoberUnder a floorboard there is a cellar at most. Here a whole forest sits a floor down.